Single Mooring Point. Tanker terminal using a single buoy or fixed structure to fasten the vessel and carry out cargo operations. The ship can swing freely around this point.

Sunday, Saturday and Holidays Excluded. Method of calculating the Lay days. These days are not counted.

A strong, rippling tide.

Range finder, radio frequency

A piece of compass-timber, fixed on the after part of the apron inside. The lower end is scarfed into the keelson, and receives the scarf of the stem, through which it is bolted.

Remotely operated vehicle

Thees & Hartlepool Port Authority UK port agency.

Safe Berth. Broker and chartering term meaning that the ship cannot be in danger hen berthed. If grounding is often a cause of the un-safety of the berth, urrent, weak mooring, and many other dangers can render a berth unsafe.

Sinclair Roche & Temperley. Law firm located in London, Hong Kong, Shangai, Bucharest: ownership of shipping companies, chartering, carriage of goods, financing, insurance.

Tango T = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( - )Flag= Red, white, blue vertical stripes.When hoisted singly from a ship it means : "Do not pass ahead of me."

Port State Control. Convention which allows the contracting states to inspect the vessel calling their port, and detain them is safety deficiencies are observed.

Soci

Secretary of State's Representative for Marine salvage and Intervention

Bow Thruster

(See ROPE-BANDS.)

The cry used when a sail is first discovered at sea.

Zulu - Z = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( - - . . )Flag= 4 colored triangle having their apex meeting at the center of the flag: black at the hoist, blue at the fly, yellow at the top, red at the bottom. When hoisted singly from a ship it means "I wish ...

Short tons (2,000 lbs.).

Search And Rescue radar Transponder

A larger vessel usually thought of as being used for ocean travel. A vessel able to carry a "boat" on board.